Tracy Chou
American software engineer; founded Block Party and co-founded Project Include.
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- Tracy Chou is an American software engineer and advocate for diversity in tech, born in 1987.
- She was an early engineer at Quora and Pinterest.
- In 2013 she asked tech companies to publish how many women they had in technical roles, and collected the numbers on GitHub.
- She co-founded Project Include in 2016 and founded Block Party, an anti-harassment and privacy tool, in 2018.
- Time named her one of its 12 Women of the Year in 2022.
Key facts
- Born
- 19871
- Education
- BS in electrical engineering and MS in computer science, Stanford University1
- Before
- Quora (fourth employee, 2010 to 2011); Pinterest (from October 2011); consultant to the US Digital Service (2015)1
- Founded
- Block Party (2018); co-founded Project Include (2016)1
- Data
- Women in tech numbers, collected on GitHub from 2013; 250 companies by January 20161
- Recognition
- Time Women of the Year (2022)1
Roles
Founded
- Block PartyOrganization
since 2018 source on Block Party
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